Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
By (Author) Lawrence Weschler
McSweeney's Publishing
McSweeney's Publishing
30th January 2006
United States
General
Non Fiction
700
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2006
Hardback
200
Width 229mm, Height 229mm
1044g
From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge at least, it does if you're looking through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a chroncler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays that are sure to illuminuate, educate, and astound.